What is KimiBot?

Block KimiBot if you want more control over whether your work is used for AI training. Allowing it may increase the chance that your brand appears in AI-generated answers, but either choice leaves traditional search rankings unchanged. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for KimiBot.

Yes. KimiBot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether KimiBot respects it.

Not through legitimate access. KimiBot primarily targets public content, but some training-data scrapers also attempt to collect gated or paywalled pages. If content loads without authentication, assume it can be collected.

Agent Analytics tracks visits from KimiBot and every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper, then authenticates each visit using KimiBot's published verification method. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "KimiBot". Look for high page counts, short gaps between requests, and deep traversal through linked content. A matching log entry alone is not proof because any bot can claim to be KimiBot.

Your content matched the criteria Moonshot AI set for a training dataset. KimiBot typically discovers pages through external links, sitemaps, and seed lists rather than because someone selected your site individually.